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The article examines one of the episodes of the struggle of Soviet armed formations against the peasant insurgency during the end of the Civil War. We are talking about the suppression of an uprising in the territory of the Volga Germans in March – April 1921.

The largest concession offers made by foreign businessmen to the Soviet government during the «military communism» period are considered. Those concession offers are remarkable because they had been made to the Soviet government before the Decree «On the General and Legal Conditions of Concessions» was accepted in Soviet Russia. That decree was also considered as the first harbinger of the Soviet yovemment withdrawal from the «military communism» policy.